The vision of the Eastern other in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival -- Mapping the world and the self: Fortunatus and the age of discovery -- Discovering the "great orient within us": Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen and the romantic vision of the East -- The oedipal and the orient in Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest -- "The Asian principle" in Thomas Mann's Derzauberberg -- Conclusion